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Monday, April 11, 2016

Catholic Prophecy Fulfilled: “Amoris Laetitia” New Constitution?

Catholic Prophecy Fulfilled: New Constitution?

“Amoris Laetitia”, a new “constitution” for the family

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The difficulties and challenges but also the positive contribution
of conjugal love. Pope Francis’ post-Synodal Exhortation is the
“charter” for the coming decades. From the importance of sexuality (“a
marvellous gift” from God) to two chapters laying out the fundamentals
of love between spouses. Family is “a good which society cannot do
without”. The document also offers advice on educating

The symbolic love of God’s inner life
In the first chapter, the Pope recalls that the Bible is “full of
families, births, love stories and family crises”. “The couple that
loves and begets life is a true, living icon , capable of revealing God
the Creator and Saviour. For this reason, fruitful love becomes a symbol
of God’s inner life.”

Individualism and demographic crisis
The second chapter focuses on the “challenges” families face. There
is “the growing danger represented by an extreme individualism” “leading
in some cases to the idea that one’s personality is shaped by his or
her desires, which are considered absolute”. Francis warns about a
declining population “due to a mentality against having children and
promoted by the world politics of reproductive health,” stressing that
“the Church strongly rejects the forced State intervention in favour of
contraception, sterilization and even abortion”. “Such measures are
unacceptable even in places with high birth rates, yet also in countries
with disturbingly low birth rates we see politicians encouraging
them.”

Home
Francis writes that “the lack of dignified or affordable housing
often leads to the postponement of formal relationships”. “Families and
homes go together.” “This makes us see how important it is to insist on
the rights of the family and not only those of individuals. The family
is a good which society cannot do without, and it ought to be
protected.”

The exploitation of children
The sexual exploitation of children “is yet another scandalous and
perverse reality in present-day society”. “Societies experiencing
violence due to war, terrorism or the presence of organized crime are
witnessing” the “so-called phenomenon of ‘street-children’.” “The sexual
abuse of children is all the more scandalous,” Francis stresses, “when
it occurs in places where they ought to be most safe, particularly in
families, schools, communities and Christian institutions.”

Poverty, euthanasia and other scourges
Euthanasia and assisted suicide are among the “serious threats” to
families worldwide, mentioned in the Exhortation. Francis then mentions
“the situation of families living in dire poverty and great
limitations”. He speaks of the “scourge” of drug addiction which causes
“immense suffering and even breakup for many families”. “The same is
true of alcoholism, gambling and other addictions.”

Do not weaken the family
Weakening the family does not “prove beneficial to society,” on the
contrary, “it poses a threat to the mature growth of individuals”.
“There is a failure to realize that only the exclusive and indissoluble
union between a man and a woman has a plenary role to play in society.”
“De facto or same-sex unions for example, may not simply be equated with
marriage. No union that is temporary or closed to the transmission of
life can ensure the future of society.”

Surrogacy, infibulation, violence
In paragraph 54, the Pope talks about women’s rights, calling
“unacceptable” the “shameful ill-treatment to which women are sometimes
subjected”. “The verbal, physical, and sexual violence that women endure
in some marriages contradicts the very nature of the conjugal union.”
Francis then mentions infibulation, “the reprehensible genital
mutilation of women practiced in some cultures, but also of their lack
of equal access to dignified work and roles of decision-making”. He also
writes about “the use of surrogate mothers and ‘the exploitation and
commercialization of the female body in the current media culture’.”

The single-mindedness of gender
The document dedicates a few lines to “gender”, an “ideology” that
“denies the difference and reciprocity in nature of a man and a woman
and envisages a society without sexual differences, thereby eliminating
the anthropological basis of the family”. “This ideology leads to
educational programmes and legislative enactments that promote a
personal identity and emotional intimacy radically separated from the
biological difference between male and female.” Francis says it “is a
source of concern that some ideologies of this sort, which seek to
respond to what are at times understand¬able aspirations, manage to
assert themselves as absolute and unquestionable, even dictating how
children should be raised”.

No to the child “factory”
Concern is expressed regarding “the ability to manipulate the
reproductive act,” making it independent of the sexual relationship
between a man and a woman. “In this way, human life and parenthood have
become modular and separable realities, subject mainly to the wishes of
individuals or couples.” “Let us not fall into the sin of trying to
replace the Creator,” Francis urges.

Educating children, a “primary right” of parents
In the third chapter of the Exhortation, Francis runs through the
magisteriums of his predecessors and explains that the sacrament of
marriage “is not a social convention” but “a gift given for the
sanctification and salvation of the spouses, “a vocation”.
“Consequently, the decision to marry and to have a family ought to be
the fruit of a process of vocational discernment.” Conjugal love is open
to new life. The overall education of children is a ‘most serious duty’
and at the same time a ‘primary right’ of parents” which “no one may
claim to deprive them”.

Holy See: Francis' Amoris Laetitia on family life released

Instructions on love
In the fourth chapter, which is one of the most innovative ones, the
Pope quotes St. Paul’s Hymn of Charity, drawing from it some useful
advice for married couples. He invites them to have mutual “patience”,
without thinking that “relationships or people ought to be perfect” and
without putting “ourselves at the centre”. He invites couples to “give
themselves to each other in a free, faithful and exclusive love,”
“expecting nothing in return”. He urges them not to be envious, boastful
or arrogant, because “those who love … refrain from speaking too much
about themselves,” they do not become “unbearably arrogant”, they are
humble, they have a “kind look”, they do “not immediately react harshly
to the weaknesses and faults of others”. He invites them “never to let
the day end without making peace in the family,” to forgive without
harbouring resentment, to “speak well of each other” trying “to show
their spouse’s good side, not their weakness and faults,” trusting one
another without being controlling but giving them some space of their
own. He reminds spouses to “contemplate” and remember that “the most
intense joys in life arise when we are able to elicit joy in others, as a
foretaste of heaven”.

Message to young people
The Pope tells young people that due to the “seriousness” of this
“public commitment of love”, marriage “cannot be the fruit of a hasty
decision, but neither can it be postponed indefinitely”. “Committing
oneself exclusively and definitively to another person always involves a
risk and a bold gamble.” Francis encourages them to “take time” and be
“ready to listen patiently and attentively to everything the other
person wants to say” before “offering an opinion or advice”. “Many
disagreements between couples are not about important things. “What
alters the mood, however, is the way things are said or the attitude
with which they are said.”

Sexuality, a “marvellous gift”
Desires, feelings, emotions, “all have an important place in married
life”. Quoting Benedict XVI, Francis explains that the official teaching
of the Church “did not reject “eros as such, but rather declared war on
a warped and destructive form of it” which “dehumanises” it. “God
himself created sexuality, which is a marvellous gift to his creatures.”
“Saint John Paul II rejected the claim that the Church’s teaching is ‘a
negation of the value of human sexuality’ or that the Church simply
tolerates sexuality ‘because it is necessary for procreation’.” Sexual
desire between spouses “is not something to be looked down upon”. “Sex
often becomes depersonalised and unhealthy; as a result, ‘it becomes the
occasion and instrument for self-assertion and the selfish satisfaction
of personal desires and instincts’. Hence, the Pope reiterates that “a
conjugal act imposed on one’s spouse without regard to his or her
condition, or personal and reasonable wishes in the matter, is no true
act of love”. “Every form of sexual submission must be clearly
rejected.”

Openness to life
The fifth chapter recalls that the family is the setting in which a
new life is “welcomed as a gift of God”. The Pope writes that “if a
child comes into this world in unwanted circumstances, the parents and
other members of the family must do everything possible to accept that
child as a gift from God”. Large families “are a joy for the Church”.
“At the same time, Saint John Paul II rightly explained that responsible
parenthood does not mean ‘unlimited procreation’.” Francis recalls that
it is important for the child “to feel wanted”. “We love our children
because they are children, not because they are beautiful, or look or
think as we do, or embody our dreams.” The Pope addresses all women who
are currently pregnant: “Your child deserves your happiness. Don’t let
fears, worries, other people’s comments or problems lessen your joy at
being God’s means of bringing a new life to the world.”

The maternal presence…
The document says it is “legitimate and indeed desirable” that women
“wish to study, work, develop their skills and have personal goals”. “At
the same time, we cannot ignore the need that children have for a
mother’s presence, especially in the first months of life.” “The
weakening of this maternal presence with its feminine qualities poses a
grave risk to our world.” “I certainly value feminism, but one that does
not demand uniformity or negate motherhood.”

…and absent fathers
These days the problem seems to be the absence of fathers. “‘Fathers
are often so caught up in themselves and their work, and at times in
their own self-fulfilment, that they neglect their families. They leave
the little ones and the young to themselves’.” “The presence of the
father, and hence his authority, is also impacted by the amount of time
given over to the communications and entertainment media.” But asking
the father to be “present” does not mean being too “controlling.
“Fathers who are too controlling overshadow their children”.

Yes to adoptions
“Adoption is a very generous way to become parents.” The Pope writes:
“It is important to insist that legislation help facilitate the
adoption process”. “Families should not see themselves as a refuge from
society,” nor as “set apart” from everything else. “God has given the
family the job of “domesticating” the world and helping each person to
see fellow human beings as brothers and sisters.” This implies a
commitment towards the poor and the suffering. “The nuclear family needs
to interact with the wider family made up of parents, aunts and uncles,
cousins and even neighbours.”

Making the elderly feel at home
“We must reawaken the collective sense of gratitude, of appreciation,
of hospitality, which makes the elderly feel like a living part of the
community.” Francis observes that “attention to the elderly makes the
difference in a society”. The document also contains an invitation not
to consider mothers-in-law and fathers-in-law and all of the spouses’
relatives as “competitors” or “intruders”.

Families as “active agents” of the family apostolate
The sixth chapter of the exhortation is dedicated to pastoral
aspects. Francis asks for “an effort at evangelization and catechesis
inside the family” and the “missionary conversion” of the whole Church,
“one that is not content to proclaim a merely theoretical message
without connection to people’s real problems”. “Pastoral care for
families “needs to make it clear that the Gospel of the family responds
to the deepest expectations of the human person”. The document insists
on the need for a more extensive interdisciplinary formation - not just
doctrinal - for seminarians, in order to equip them to deal with complex
problems facing the family today.

Preparing for marriage
There is also a focus on the need to better prepare couples for
marriage, “with a greater effort on the part of the whole Christian
community”. It is up to each individual church to decide how to do this.
It is “a kind of ‘initiation’ to the sacrament of matrimony”. We must
not “underestimate the pastoral value of traditional religious
practices,” such as St. Valentine’s day: “in some countries, commercial
interests are quicker to see the potential of this celebration than are
we in the Church”. The preparation process must also give couples the
chance to “recognize eventual problems and risks” breaking off a
relationship if failure is foreseen.

Too concentrated on preparations
“Short-term preparations for marriage tend to be concentrated on
invitations, clothes, the party and any number of other details that
tend to drain not only the budget but energy and joy as well. The
spouses come to the wedding ceremony exhausted and harried.” “Here let
me say a word to fiancés,” the Pope says. “Have the courage to be
different. Don’t let yourselves get swallowed up by a society of
consumption and empty appearances.” Marriage is “a project to be worked
on together”, without having unduly high expectations about conjugal
life.

Yes to the “Humanae Vitae”
Francis calls for Paul VI’s encyclical and John Paul II’s “Familiaris Consortio” to be taken up anew, “in order to counter a mentality that is often hostile to life”.

Advice for young married couples
The Pope suggests some “daily rituals”. “These could include a
morning kiss, an evening blessing, waiting at the door to welcome each
other home, taking trips together and sharing household chores.” “Yet it
also helps to break the routine with a party, and to enjoy family
celebrations.”

Crises can be overcome
“With proper assistance and acts of reconciliation, through grace, a
great percentage of troubled marriages find a solution in a satisfying
manner”. “To know how to forgive and to feel forgiven is a basic
experience in family life”. This requires “the generous cooperation of
relatives and friends, and sometimes even outside help and professional
assistance”.

Never use children as “hostages”
Francis asks separated parents to “never ever take your child
hostage!” “Your children should not have to bear the burden of this
separation or be used as hostages against the other spouse. They should
grow up hearing their mother speak well of their father, even though
they are not together, and their father speak well of their mother.” The
Pope says divorce is an “evil” and the increasing number of divorces is
very “troubling”.

Homosexual members of the family
Families whose members include persons who experience same-sex
attraction, is a situation that is “not easy either for parents or for
children”. The Pope stresses that “every person” “ought to be respected
in his or her dignity and treated with consideration” avoiding
discrimination. “Such families should be given respectful pastoral
guidance, so that those who manifest a homosexual orientation can
receive the assistance they need to understand and fully carry out God’s
will in their lives.” He stresses that there are absolutely no grounds
for placing unions between homosexual persons on the same level as
marriage.

The “sting” of death
The Pope recalls the importance of accompanying families going
through loss, affirming that “after the loss of a loved one, we still
have a mission to carry out, and that it does us no good to prolong the
suffering”.

Who gives our children guidance?
The seventh chapter looks at children’s education. Francis invites
faithful to ask themselves: “who is providing their entertainment”? “who
is entering their rooms through television”, “those with whom they are
spending their free time”? “Vigilance is always necessary”. Parents must
prepare children to confront the risks “of aggression, abuse or drug
addiction”. “If parents are obsessed with always knowing where their
children are and controlling all their movements,” “this is no way to
educate, strengthen and prepare their children to face challenges”.
“What is most important is the ability lovingly to help them grow in
freedom, maturity, overall discipline and real autonomy.”

How to educate
Moral formation should “take place inductively, so that children can
learn for themselves the importance of certain values, principles and
norms, rather than by imposing these as absolute and unquestionable
truths”. “In our own day, dominated by stress and rapid technological
advances, one of the most important tasks of families is to provide an
education in hope. This does not mean preventing children from playing
with electronic devices, but rather finding ways to help them develop
their critical abilities and not to think that digital speed can apply
to everything in life.”

The risk of “technological disconnect”
Sometimes, electronic devices “can keep people apart rather than
together, as when at dinnertime everyone is surfing on a mobile phone or
when one spouse falls asleep waiting for the other who spends hours
playing with an electronic device”. Children and adolescents “at times
can foster apathy and disconnect from the real world”. This
“technological disconnect” exposes them more easily to manipulation”.
The Exhortation says yes to a “positive and prudent sex education” and
an education that gets children used to the idea that men can also get
involved in some of the household chores. “It is essential that children
actually see that, for their parents, prayer is something truly
important.”

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will bless it as a gift from Heaven; whereas it is in fact sent form hell and
permitted by God in His just wrath. It will only be by its side effects that
people will be led to recognize the Dragon who wanted to destroy all and devour
all. One night I saw a number of ecclesiastics. Their haughtiness and air of
severity seemed to demand the respect of all. They forced the faithful to
follow them. But God commanded me to oppose them saying: They no longer have
the right to speak my name Jesus told me. It is against My wish that they carry
out a mandate for which they are no longer worthy of."

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all things, therefore, both in the rule of faith in the observance of
discipline, let the pattern of antiquity be observed.Pope St. Leo
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St. Bernard:

Go forth confidently then, you knights, and repel the foes of the cross of Christ with a stalwart heart. Know that neither death nor life can separate you from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ, and in every peril repeat, "Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's." What a glory to return in victory from such a battle! How blessed to die there as a martyr! Rejoice, brave athlete, if you live and conquer in the Lord; but glory and exult even more if you die and join your Lord. Life indeed is a fruitful thing and victory is glorious, but a holy death is more important than either. If they are blessed who die in the Lord, how much more are they who die for the Lord!

How secure, I say, is life when death is anticipated without fear; or rather when it is desired with feeling and embraced with reverence! How holy and secure this knighthood and how entirely free of the double risk run by those men who fight not for Christ! Whenever you go forth, O worldly warrior, you must fear lest the bodily death of your foe should mean your own spiritual death, or lest perhaps your body and soul together should be slain by him.

Indeed, danger or victory for a Christian depends on the dispositions of his heart and not on the fortunes of war. If he fights for a good reason, the issue of his fight can never be evil; and likewise the results can never be considered good if the reason were evil and the intentions perverse. If you happen to be killed while you are seeking only to kill another, you die a murderer. If you succeed, and by your will to overcome and to conquer you perchance kill a man, you live a murderer. Now it will not do to be a murderer, living or dead, victorious or vanquished. What an unhappy victory--to have conquered a man while yielding to vice, and to indulge in an empty glory at his fall when wrath and pride have gotten the better of you!

But what of those who kill neither in the heat of revenge nor in the swelling of pride, but simply in order to save themselves? Even this sort of victory I would not call good, since bodily death is really a lesser evil than spiritual death. The soul need not die when the body does. No, it is the soul which sins that shall die.

The knight of Christ, I say, may strike with confidence and die yet more confidently, for he serves Christ when he strikes, and serves himself when he falls. Neither does he bear the sword in vain, for he is God's minister, for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of the good. If he kills an evildoer, he is not a mankiller, but, if I may so put it, a killer of evil. He is evidently the avenger of Christ towards evildoers and he is rightly considered a defender of Christians. Should he be killed himself, we know that he has not perished, but has come safely into port.

Once he finds himself in the thick of battle, this knight sets aside his previous gentleness, as if to say, "Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord; am I not disgusted with your enemies?" These men at once fall violently upon the foe, regarding them as so many sheep. No matter how outnumbered they are, they never regard these as fierce barbarians or as awe-inspiring hordes. Nor do they presume on their own strength, but trust in the Lord of armies to grant them the victory.

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Saint Athanasius

"May God console you! ... What saddens you ... is the fact that others have occupied the churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact that they have the premises – but you have the Apostolic Faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true Faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the Faith dwells within you. Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the Faith?The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in the struggle – the one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the Faith? True, the premises are good when the Apostolic Faith is preached there; they are holy if everything takes place there in a holy way ..."You are the ones who are happy; you who remain within the Church by your Faith, who hold firmly to the foundations of the Faith which has come down to you from Apostolic Tradition. And if an execrable jealousy has tried to shake it on a number of occasions, it has not succeeded. They are the ones who have broken away from it in the present crisis. No one, ever, will prevail against your Faith, beloved Brothers. And we believe that God will give us our churches back some day. "Thus, the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more they separate themselves from the Church. They claim that they represent the Church; but in reality, they are the ones who are expelling themselves from it and going astray. Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ."